International Conference 4-7 June 2012
Photorespiration - Key to Better Crops
Sponsored by
Bayer CropScience Deutschland
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Plant Biology
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Conference Venue and Accommodation
Strand-Hotel Hübner, Seestraße 12, 18119 Rostock-Warnemünde, +49 (0)381 54340
http://www.hotel-huebner.de/kontakt/anfahrt.html
Contact, Assistance and Accounting
Janine Dinnebier, [email protected]
Hermann Bauwe, [email protected]
Monday, June 4
13:00-14:45 Gathering
14:45-15:00 Opening
June 4, Regulation (Peter Westhoff)
15:00 Stefan Timm
Is the photorespiratory pathway regulated?
15:30 Per Gardeström
Subcellular redox consequences of photorespiration
16:00 Inger Andersson
Structure of the homodimeric P-protein and the structural
basis for redox regulation
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Sanja Roje
Folate polyglutamylation affects activity state of
mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferases from
Arabidopsis thaliana
17:30 Michael Hodges
Protein phosphorylation & photorespiration
19:00 Dinner for all in Warnemünde Harbour
June 5, Interacting pathways (Martin Hagemann)
09:00 Roc Ros
The phosphorylated pathway of serine biosynthesis: a
forgotten minor pathway with an essential function in plants
09:30 Alexandra Florian
Metabolomics and flux profiling to delimit the
interconnectivity of photorespiration and other pathways
10:00 Olivier Keech
A genetic dissection of peroxide-mediated decarboxylations
under short-term response to low CO2
10:15 Katrin Krause
The physiological significance of alternative
photorespiratory pathways
10:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
June 5, Interacting pathways (Alisdair Fernie)
11:00 Veronica G. Maurino
Cross talk of photorespiration with processes involving 2hydroxyglutarate
11:30 Judith Wienstroer
Is there a link between photorespiration and D-lactate
metabolism?
11:45 Joachim Kopka
In-vivo flux probing of interactions between leaf
development and environmental stresses
12:00 Lunch at Strand Hotel
June 5, Interacting compartments (Christoph Peterhänsel)
14:00 Marion Eisenhut
The Arabidopsis A BOUT DE SOUFFLE protein is a
mitochondrial transporter involved in photorespiratory
metabolism
14:30 Thea R. Pick
Mep1 - a chloroplastidic player in photorespiration
14:45 Christian Bordych
Putative role of At1g78620 during photorespiratory
transport
15:00 Sigrun Reumann
Title to be announced
15:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
Evolution of photorespiration and its role in C4 plants (Hans-Peter Braun)
16:00 Ramona Kern
Evolutionary origin of photorespiration: Phylogenetic and
biochemical studies of core cycle enzymes.
16:30 Anke Kuhn
Evolution and functional characterization of the plant
glycolate oxidase gene family
17:00 Stefanie Schulze
Photorespiratory evolution from C3 to C4 - the case of
glycine decarboxylase
17.30 … 5-10 min talks from posters with free beer
Choice to have dinner in smaller guided groups in downtown Rostock
June 6, CO2 release, diffusion and refixation (Marion Eisenhut)
09:00 George Espie
The interplay between the CCM and photorespiration in
cyanobacteria
09:30 Tammy Sage
Proto-Kranz anatomy: A means for scavenging
photorespired CO2 in arid-zone C3 plants? by T.L. Sage, R.
F. Sage and F. Busch
10:00 Florian Busch
C3 plants increase their CO2 assimilation rates by
intracellular reassimilation of photorespired CO2
10:30 Coffee break
CO2 release, diffusion and refixation (Veronica G. Maurino)
11:00 Rowan Sage
Intracellular trapping and refixation of photorespiratory CO2
in C3 plants by R.F. Sage, T.L. Sage, A. Cousins and F
Busch
11:30 Katrin Peters
The role of mitochondrial complex I in respiration and
photorespiration
12:00 Conference photo in front of & Lunch at Strand Hotel
13:30 Sight-seeing choice:
Bus tour to the Doberaner Münster
17:00 Discussing Future Avenues of Photorespiration Research (coffee and beer)
Suggested Topics:
Interaction with other pathways (Alisdair Fernie)
Engineering crop plants (Christoph Peterhänsel)
Evolution of Photorespiration (Martin Hagemann)
More suggestions welcome
19:00 Dinner in Warnemünde Harbor
June 7, Modelling photorespiratory fluxes (Andreas Weber)
09:00 Zoran Nikoloski
Data-driven modeling of central carbon metabolism in
plants: Bridging the temporal and spatial scales
09:30 Jiri Jablonsky
Modelling the regulation of carbon flux in cyanobacteria
10:00 Aaron Kaplan
Title to be announced
10:30 Coffee break
10:30 Susanne v. Caemmerer Modelling CO2 diffusion and recycling of photorespiratory
CO2
11:00 David T. Hanson
Testing our assumptions with multi-factor gas exchange
12:00 Farewell Lunch at Strand Hotel
Posters
Christian Blume (Hannover)
Development of a method for direct determination of
plastidal glycolate conversion
Daria Chrobok (Düsseldorf)
Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) as putative pyruvate
transporters in mitochondria
Jiri Jablonsky (Rostock)
Modeling the Calvin-Benson cycle
Nils Jaspert (Düsseldorf)
Functional characterization of A. thaliana glycolate oxidase
3 (GOX3)
Myles Levey (Düsseldorf)
Activity pattern of C3, C3-C4 and C4 glycerate 3-kinase and
phosphoglycolate phosphatase promoters in A. thaliana.
Alexandra Maier (Düsseldorf) Transgenic introduction of a glycolate oxidative cycle into
A. thaliana chloroplasts leads to growth improvement
Julia Mallmann (Düsseldorf)
Analysis of photorespiratory gene expression in the genus
Flaveria
Axel Masloboy (Rostock)
Redox-regulation of glycine decarboxylase
Doreen Schwarz (Rostock)
Metabolome analysis of carbon acclimation of
cyanobacteria
Abstracts
Participants